If you’ve been running Vista for any period, you may well have come across the following error if you’ve installed a software DVD player, or upgraded an existing one, or perhaps have Azureus Vuze or some other Java application with media player capabilities installed:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION\Application Data\Azureus\azureus.config.saving (The system cannot find the path specified)

or
error:failed to create directory C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION\Application Data\Azureus\azureus.config.saving (The system cannot find the path specified)

Well, it seems that some genius programmer, instead of using the WIN32 function to determine the users application data path, has instead hard coded one assuming that the user will be running Windows XP under which creating the above directories might be allowed as all users are super users by default (under normal home-use circumstances).

Well, there is a solution – however it involves editing the Windows Registry.
NOTE: If you’re unsure about what this means or are uncomfortable with editing the Windows Registry directly, ask for help from someone who has, or do a lot of research before you begin. If you break or corrupt your registry, windows may very easily become unusable.

Open your registry editor by running RegEdit from the windows “RUN” command:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folder

and make sure that AppData is set to “C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming“. (replacing <user> with your local user account name – check the path yourself if unsure).

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folder

AppData should be “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming“

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment

AppData should be “C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming” (again, replacing <user> with your local user account name – check the path yourself if unsure).

This should solve most of your issues.

I’ve been told that DELETING any registry keys containing the value: “C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION” will also work as the keys will be re-created automatically using default values (the correct default values) the next time a program saves its settings. However, this seems a drastic and possibly unsafe step, so leave it as a last resort if you’re still having problems.

Hope this help you all.

There are a lot of quirks between different browsers, in particular though are the differences in the way each browser handles the DOM in JavaScript.

Internet Explorer, for the most part, implements MSXml 4.0 or higher. However that’s (obviously) a Microsoft technology, and the standard implementation doesn’t support XPath in the DOM.

In particular the selectNodes() and selectSingleNode() functions are of particular use when manipulating XML or the DOM. Using these functions you can parse an XPath expression and get a nodelist of elements in your DOM that match the expression.

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Formatting Numbers

Numeric formatting in JavaScript can be very tedious. From handling non-numeric characters, to multiple-currency symbols, to alternate negative display methods. The functions below should be valuable in assisting to format numbers and currencies of all types.

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In an SDI application (Single Document Interface), the main form acs as the “container” for the entire application. This means that child forms, are exactly that – children of the application. The long and short of which, means that when you minimise the main form of the application, all forms are hidden. In addition to which, when you minimise a child form of the application, it doesn’t minimise to the task bar, instead it minimises to the application desktop. This also has the side effect that only the main application form itself has a task bar button.

So, How do I change this behaviour?

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Firstly you can edit the Registry of the remote machine by hand:

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server on the remote machine, and find the key: fDenyTSConnections
If it doesn’t exist create it, then set it’s value to “0″.

Alternatively you can use the following batch file to do the job for you.
Note: You must be logged into your computer with credentials that allow you to remotely edit the Registry of the machine in question, otherwise the batch file will fail.

syntax: EnableRemoteDesktop.bat RemotePC
NB: This batch file must be run under Windows XP

Save the following to a file named EnableRemoteDesktop.bat

@echo off
setlocal
if {%1}=={} goto syntax

:loop
if {%1}=={} goto finish
set remote="\\%1\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server"
shift
reg.exe ADD %remote% /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>nul 2>&1
if NOT %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 @echo %remote% NOT found.
goto loop

:syntax
@echo Syntax: RemoteDesktop Computer1 [Computer2 .... Computern]
goto loop

:finish
endlocal

Yes, you read it right… LightBlubs.

I found this talented young designer named Pieke Bergmans (from the Netherlands) work online and was immediately captivated by her stuff!. She’s done a lot of 3D, industrial and product design, and holds the philosophy that every product ever produced should be different, just like all of us…

Have a look here, and enjoy her work!

Well, as awesome as community radio is, I think 3WBC got a few extra listeners today thanks to the creative efforts of a few of Melbourne’s favourite RedBubblers.

Kristy Lee (aka Miss Kristy), Lisa German and Chanel2, were all invited to read some of their creative writing and poetry on-air today. They did a great job, and for those of you who missed it, you can listen right here:

Part 1: LisaG – Memories
Memories

Part 2: Chanel2 – Man Eyes
Man Eyes

Part 3: Miss Kristy – Artist
Artist

Part 4: LisaG – My Superhero
My Superhero

Part 5: Chanel2 – Gravity
Gravity

Part 6: Miss Kristy – Literary Misunderstood
Literary Misunderstood

Enjoy!

Microsoft post updates to all of thier applications on a regular basis. Almost all of them relate to security patches of some sort, some update functionality.

One of the more recent updates to Microsoft Office 2007 caused quite some trouble to some users, specifically when running Outlook (or Word etc.) for the first time as a new user on a given machine.

The problem manifests itself by not allowing the user to perform any operations inside the program, or exit the application. In Outlook, this means you can’t open an email, or pretty much anything else. The program won’t even exit. There’s one hint however – if you try and tun a second copy of the program, you get the error message: “A dialog box is open. Close it and try again.“

As it turns out, this is hafll correct. There is in fact a dialogue box open. But it’s not visible to the user. The dialog box is the setup window that asks the user for their name and initials. Unfortunately as fast as the window appearsm it’s hidden again from the user.

It turns out, the problem is related to KB946983 (Outlook 2007 Update), so removing this patch corrects the functionality… It’s important to note though, that update does correct a security vulnerability in Outlook, and you may wish to re-apply the update after you’ve fixed the problem.

The second option to resolve this issue, is to run one of the other Office 2007 programs (e.g. Word), fill in the dialogue box, save the settings, exit both programs (You’ll probably have to end the “Outlook.exe” taks from the task manager), then re-start it all. This usually works, but some users have claimed this did not help, which may or may not be related to the order in which they do these things.

Hope this helps someone.

Ref: http://office-outlook.com/outlook-forum/index.php/m/282796/

This is a little GEM!

Think LowBrow… think sinful, sinical and sordid…

http://www.TrueOnlineConfessions.com

Enjoy!

Trim(), is one function that we all use almost every day in most languages, whether it’s a core function of the language you’re using or a member (or prototype in JavaScript) function of the String object itself (as in C#), it’s invaluable for developers.

Unfortunately JavaScript doesn’t have this sort of thing built in, so here’s how to implement your own trim() functions (as well as ltrim() and rtrim()) in various ways depending on the level of backward compatibility you require.

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